SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939 The Way to Victory!
vale Publicly In the Joins Strikebreakers Labor Unions On the Picket Line In Minnesota APPEAL ARMY SCAD WORKERS FORUM Stalinist Outfit Wrecks Alameda Strike Boston Appeal Salesmen Hold Ground Against Coughlinites WRAN SCAB MASS DISTRIBUTION OF extra Appeals.
VAGES Labor Skate Lasser Crawls on His Belly APPEAL IN STRIKE! Newark took 200 extra, DeSince the beginning of the troit 300 extra, Toledo 100 exTo Assure Roosevelt of Fidelity present strike the staff Cleveland 500 total, etc. etc.
tra, Philadelphia 25 additional, By CARL SHEA of the Socialist Appeal has been The Socialist Appeal is in the Squads of youth and women working all hours, not only turn front line trenches, supporting Finally, after a week of pressure on Congress.
cook to the streets Friday selling ing out the paper containing the strikers!
By WIDICK sneaky underhanded sabotage Strike breaker Lasser acof the strike, the Work tion was foreshadowed last Satletin issued by the Northwest ing out the orders for extra Appeal have already been sold The last two issues of the Three good union men were ers Alliance has openly joined urday when Herbert Benjamin, Organizer, organ of the Team Papers that have come in.
killed in Harlan, Kentucky, the strike breakers.
and distributed to the tune of general secretary of the Allsters Joint Council. Twenty five. New York City alone has more than 5, 000 extra copies!
during the last week. Two of Dave Lasser, president of the ance, made the following whinthousand copies of the Bulletin taken 3, 000 extra papers.
Send in your extra bundle or them were shot by National Stalinist controlled unemployed ing comment on Roosevelt are being distributed through St. Louis and East St. Louis ciers immediately for distribuChiardsmen. One of them was organization, issued his intam. You can strike against the out the Northwest.
have taken 500 extras.
tion among the militant killed by a scab over the week ous strike breaking statement government pronunciamento Minneapolis has received 600 strikers! Don lose a minute!
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on Monday, July 17 in the form The Workers Alliance has a Here one for the books. The Three union men dead. What of a message to President fixed polley with regard to St. Paul Pioneer Press revealed was their crime? They were on Fuosevelt, informing him that strikes and has not departed Friday that Mrs. Chester Watly defending their inalienable members of his organization from this policy in this inson, employed as a supervisor right to organize, to obtain col executive council were being stance. We have not called any on a handicraft project lective bargaining.
polled on a proposal to halt all strikes and are not calling any in the auditorium, hasn struck In its strike breaking activi stoppages and devote! Strikes of workers.
yeu.
tics the Natio. al Guard was not all their strength to orderly (New York Times, July 16. And who is MR. CHESTER THE GOOD LIFE fortunates, according to our satisfied, however, with merely WATSON? He is the president ON W. WAGE supervisors or similar parasitic trying to terrorize the Harian of the Minnesota Workers A114 Laitor: politicians in charge of the reminers by threat of armed ance, my friends. am working on lef.
force The Guardsmen used about 20 miles from Petersburg On top of this, most of these force.
The Silver Shirts have organ in the National Park district poor people are constantly huResentment among the minized rather large group called Swift Creek Recreational miliated by visits from fake ers, already plenty high be among workers on the Area. 12 hours for hours pay. social workers who are nothcause of the presence of the National Guard, reached a University of Minnesota cam We leave here at and time ing but detectives paid excelpus, and are opposing the pres starts at We get 28 cents an lent salaries to watch these breaking point after the shootent walkout. Wednesday, July hour, 140 hours a month, 39. 20 poor people, how they spend inge.
12, when a group of 544 Federal total pay a month on which to their money or if they are home So what did the Guard do? It (addy spog ovo pods) was adjourned.
rounded up 246 active strikers OAKLAND, Cal, July 13 New Organization Workers Section pickets went support my wife and baby. It all the time. Besides this they and their wives and packed Five thousand workers all during the strike mem workers, who struck for union wages and over to the to picket, one killing me. For those who stay are constantly made to sign them into an over crowded jail. in Alameda and Contra Costa bers of the Alliance were kept against Roosevelt relief cutting, as they held a mass of the fascists pulled a 13 inch in the city on city projects the papers, dozens of them which Counties returned to work here in ignorance of the plans, meminvariably repeat that they are hunting knife and stabbed two pay is 26 cents an hour.
meeting at the North Beach Airport project in New York Guilty of What?
today after a two day strike bers of the Communist Party rather difficult place to paupers or words to that effect prickets. Myron Phillips and which is completely paralyzed by the strike.
Lester Wachter. The fink was crack the shell but m going and have no money. In the case What was the charge? Band which was deliberately wrecked scabbed, and striking workers later jailed, and it was lucky for to do my damndest. Would ap of those who own a miserable ing and confederating. Phoney by the Stalinist Workers Allt were left without instructions him the cops took this rat away. preciate if you have any old home, many liens are filled out from the first letter to the last. ance. Urging the workers to or leadership.
Appeals or any beginner lit and their homes mortgaged to family eating dinner is organize on the Job the corAs a result of this complete The St. Paul Pioneer Press, eratare which you could send the county. Even police are re banding and confederating just neders mehe theance failure of the Alliance, a new to eat food. Sunday school is the Civic Auditorium in Oak workers was born during the traditional reactionary sheet, me. You can get pretty bluesorted to and come running in today for the first time finds it around here. ll appreciate at night to see if the patients are home sleeping and not out banding and confederating to ob serve religious exercises.
land, refused to allow any dis strike and will begin at once to self praising the President for hearing from you.
his firm stand against the Comradely yours.
attending a movie, for you must In so many words, the cussion of the motion to return fight against the sell out poliW. strike.
Jimmie know that to attend a movie Crime of the Harlan miners, to work and refused to take a cies or the stalinists and the Petersburg, Va.
and forget your troubles is a according to the National nay vote on the question crime.
Turning the strike and the Roosevelt. Affiliated with the war mongering government of (Special to the Socialist all of them. This so angered Thursday morning around Guard mentality, was getting strike meetings into a pro Progressive Unemployed Com reached a high pitch here to several citizens that they inter 8:30 a group of pickets CHARITY BEGINS BOSTON. July Excitement Hounding the Aged together striking school. WITH HOUNDING OF SICK The aged recipients of state vened. Murphy then told the surrounded Everett The charges against the 246 Roosevelt movement, the stal mittee which now claims ay. As gang of Coughlinite cop to pull them in, too, for where some finks were trying Dear Editor: old age security are likewise miners and their wives are inists betrayed the workers membership of more than fourhoodlums selling their Social Do you know about the char 311 treated. If the so called so oleperate move to use Legal thousands, Deliberately prend local will proceed to build a by a Mr. Murphy who claimed pure and simple frame ups. who had left the projects by the hundred members, this Justice rag. and ably assisted resisting an officer in perform to scab. copper came up.
ance of his duty.
pulled a gun and started wavity and benevolence of our locial worker finds that the The Appeal men protested soing it at the pickets, yelling: cal Los Angeles County Chari aged man or woman receives m going to kill a couple of ties officials? If not may in free rent, ten dollars will be de of the strikers. Ball was put at and by complete failure to or genuine rank and file organiza his official position is super!
257. 000 in an effort to keep the canize picket lines the Stalin. tion for the purpose of leading visor of Minors Licencest. cepted Taber proposal of one anyway. And haven forgot many of whom are near skin lars which he is supposed to refor strongly that the cop finally ac you. hate workers form you that tuberculars, ducted from the thirty five dolthe workers to win at tradel the School Committee, attempt strikers in all and try to break ists revealed the Alliance as a union wages.
scab herding company union.
ed to chase Appeal salesmen salesman on each corner, and ten what you did in 1934. and bones are having their ceive, leaving him twenty five their morale.
from the crowded shopping dis Murphy, evidently a Coughlin He was referring to the 34 meagre and insufficient re Collars a month on which to exIt the same dirty stunt the You Can Strike too is constantly National Guard always uses to When the workers responded tract, and to create a lynch spir supporter, slunk away mutter truck strike, when the drivers lief checks reduced from the ist. He it against Johnny Taber, ener ing ll get an ordinance mopped the streets with the en former eleven dollars to only watched and dogged by women break strikes. They tried it on to the nation wide spontaneous getic Appeal agent.
passed in the City Council tire Minneapolis police force. nine dollars a month. Thirty detectives as if he were a crimthe auto workers in Anderson, strike against the Woodrum Murphy. assisted by a cop against you guys. People The cop number is 470, and six cents a day is evidently too inal and asked the same quesInd. when we were there dur Bill, the Alliance called a dempulled Taber aside, although standing around, including a the is registering a com much money for these poor un tions over and over again. Such ing the General Motors strike. onstratiori at which the workTaber was the only Appeal Communist Party member, piaint with city officials.
is the charity and benevoers were told You can strike It served to expose the Na. against the government. When salesman on the corner, and congratulated them on their lence of our public paid sery.
tional Guard to many wavering the Alliance leadership saw there were eleven Coughlinites. stand, and they returned to the Incidentally, this is the fourth ants who receive enormous elements. It forged an iron ring that the workers were deter When other Appeal salesmen sale of the Appeal, where they cop to threaten strikers salaries to cut down the most of solidarity among the work: mined to fight against the went to Taber side, Murphy did better than the Coughlin with death. Other cops, whose neagre and inadequate relief ers. In Harlan, the result will coolie wages and the 30 day vatried to get the cop to arrest ites.
numbers are known to 544, have to the sick and aged.
be the same threatened to kill two of you thorough investigation can cations without pay, they an national campaign of the nounced a strike meeting for for what you did to Gearty.
readily prove the above stateC. to free the Harlan min. the following Monday ments.
two ers must begin immediately. days Gearty is the cop who died It is about time that we rid after the nation wide Proof of Federation The three martyrs among the strike had begun!
Monday after a scuffle at the ourselves of these political parSewing Project. All the boss paasites and imbeciles who re Harlan strikers can be avenged At this meeting the Stalinist in only one way. The open shop bureaucrats of the Alliance pers immediately tried to drum ceive fat pay for making people must be smashed. The United tried to head off the movement up lynch law against the strike miserable.
Mine Workers should continue by pretending it was not a hy claiming that Gearly was Desert WPA Strikers Los Angeles, Cal.
its drive until a closed shop and strike but a protest demon(Special to the Socialist Appeal)
By ABE MILLER tuted a series of Saturday mass killed by strikers. However, the June 28, 1939.
good union conditions prevail in stration. They then called for the pie card bureaucrats of the WASHINGTON, When Literature Agent sales to take place at 59th St. press quickly choked itself off As They Follow Their Harlan, Kentucky.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF another meeting to discuss The sale of the anti Coughlin spots.
strom sald an autopsy showed Perhaps John Lewis spoke ways and means of picketing National Workers Security Fed pamphlet by the New York and 14th St. Coughlin sale when Deputy Coroner CallerWhite House Leader STALINIST SABOTAGE death was caused by coronary Editor of the Harlan miners in his the projects which were arendy eration ordered their striking local of the Socialist Workers Raise Quota Chicago speech Sunday and the closed. In the meantime work members to go back to work, Party. indicates that in New As a result of the increased which Gearty had been afflictsclerosis, a heart condition with On Monday, July 10, a few Declaring that strikes of of us on the newspaper index should have made it such a bie the parere is maing in the folk e Union, stric Washington Workers step towards becoming a cam demand for our pamphlet local ed. The minor injuries sustain workers throughout the ing project, members of the point that omission was im Aliance to organize frying called this action by its right peien party. In less than three has increased its original edirlby Gearty several hours rationens de embarrassed mathe American workers Alliance, 18The Harlan victims should be squads to bring out the remain name. strikebreaking. and weeks 8, 500 copies of the pam quota from 4, 000 to 15. 000 pam earlier were not a factor in his members of Congress, Senator sued a petition to our fellow being projects.
coroner said.
sentative Adolph Sabath, lead they were willing to participate honored by the with the Intimidate Rank and File from affiliation to this fake out cist Demagogue. have been phlets. Comrade Frank, the death, the same reverence as the murdersold to workers in the main city organizer, feels that 25, 000 None of the boss papers told ers of the left wing New in a one day protest strike and At every meeting in Jeffer fit.
ed workers of the Chicago Lit son Park in Oakland the Alli thoroughfares of New York. copies can be sold easily if the Why the pickets were so en Dealers, announced Saturday, picket line in front of the steA week previously, Washtie Steel massacre.
orice fakers made long winded ington union had scored the York encountered such wide ent pace. We have also doubled and followed him all the way drawn their bills calling for the ton and other adminisNever before have we in New branches continue their pres raged at the fink Frank Fischer July 15, that they had with vens Hotel where Col. HarringHonor them by fighting speeches about nothing in par clause in the constitution of the spread enthusiasm as was demant branch quotas in order to from the Sewing Project to the restoration of the prevailing trators were in session caused their death. And John out the patience of the workers which bars workers from mem wards our salesmen. Encour. phlets in the neighborhood. The over the courthouse for an strike situation made it inop the coming lay offs.
Our protest was to be against Senator Murray said that the the Woodrum Bill and against Since fighter or union leader when taged. At every meeting the liefs, but had let the matter aging words are reported by present standing and quotas are Fischer had tried to stab a portune to immediately press many of us would be affected announced killings was to write a letter to plans for the next day but each Workers Security Federation pamphlet are made quite fre big ride until such time as the for the free distribution of the New picket with a sharp heavy for the restoration of the pre and laid off because of the 18 Prank Murphy, Attorney Gen day was the same. When the proved to the hilt its reaction quently by anti fascists. In Branch Reached Quota screw driver. The pickets were vailing wage.
month employment clause, we cral demanding protection ES never try to do the impos wanted to let the administraleadership saw that militant ary character.
235 unarmed, and naturally they 400 at a time when Murphy was do rank and file workers Downtown sible resented this murderous at Sabath, who only a few days Also, we were opposed to the 1000 said Representative tors know how we felt about it.
ing his best to break the were organizing to pull out the of the Publicity chairman Waldron some cases, workers have voluntarily appointed themselves originally a 1000 Bronx 819 1200 knocked down while the crowd ogo had given his oath to or cuts in the prevailing wage workers strike against starva remaining projects and were member of the District Project Buards in order to protect our tion wages issuing leaflets support of Workers Union, who valued his goon squads. Practically all comrades from the Coughlin Brownsville 500 taught Fischer a little lesson. sanized labor to push the res scale.
the strike and urging the lead cighty dollar a month Salesmen are unanimous in rePlacing Guilt Boro Pk.
400 He was kept in jail for his own oiution in the House.
Astoria protection Reports from Washington ership to call on the trade job in supervisory capacity porting that rank and file StalThe workers on the project point to the fact that the were ready to strike. They had Green Fails union, to organize picket lines more than he did the building anists throughout the city pur.
Jamaica 50 200 friends of labor in Congress responded very favorably to a Teachers and to set up a militant move up of a militant unton. Strictly chase the anti Coughlin pam35 Believe it or not, there After all these years of the went to make the strike a suc a desk boy, he did not want to phlet.
Needle Trade Stalinist striker in St. bad asked officials to leaflet which attacked the dispute. William cess. Alliance leaders became compromise himself with any Paul who says, don believe call off the strike, as the price Woodrum Bill, Roosevelt and Day 250 Non Party Salesmen 500 Center 3000 6000 those stories in the paper that for their support of the prevail the New Deal, and which excouldn split the Salem, Mass. timidation to prevent the work. a very flimsy excuse to drop tals campaign has been the recoughlin campaign is just the ground him Almost laughed fully concocted fairy tale in. cal, however, sabotaged the One of the novel features of President Roosevelt is against ing wage amendments. plained the need for strike acWhat is left now of the care tion. The Stalinists in our lo ers from reading the rank and out of the strenuous efforts on his part.
file leaflets.
At the Washington convention from party and non pa. ty peorade cruitment of salesmen bata beginning. Watch us when com themselves sick at the man vented by the Stalinists that a preparations so effectively that The current issue of the At the mass meeting held last of the workers Security Feder ple. One non party salesman Let the People Vote on War.
Burnham North Shore Organizer, news night in Oakland the Stalinists ation, when a motion was made sold 550 anti Coughin pam comes off the press.
pamphlet. credulity.
were ready to fight to the death on the petition and on this basis paper of the Lynn, Peabody, headed off all discussion by to give Washington representa phlets in three days in the The Wednesday, July 12 against the new relief smash they called off the strike at the ment tells the story of how dragging out Lieutenant Gover tion on the National Committee beurt of the Needle Trades morning papers quoted Richard ing measure?
last moment.
Green orders to expel 1o. Roosevelt Democratic Party, orous in his opposition.
Patterson, big wigin of the Waldron was vig center.
Adams, secretary of the Duluth The Daily Worker, lying in They later explained that it unions from the Central labor who immediately made a camThe Lranches nave instituted Russian Bulletin Out Workers Alliance, as calling for this as in all other things, re would have been wrong to movement failed completely in regular mass says in practicaj.
a return to work after stating ports in its Monday, July 17 is picket Col. Harrington and his paign speech for himself by ANNOUNCEMENTS the past.
ly every neighborhood where The Tenth Anniversary Is the walkout here and through sue, that Congressmen Murray aides, since it was not his fault His personal agent, Aaron using the people to be calm the Coughlinites function. We sue of the Russian Oppost out the nation has received the and Sabath had refused to that the layoffs and cuts had to Vellman appeared at the last for Roosevelt policies, etc. It CAMP SEVEN OAKS. Eaten branches: the Bronx for the 819 single out for praise three tion Bulletin has just ar attention of the people. feel concede that the prevailing be made, but the fault of the rived. The issue is almost en confident that our elected rep. wage) issue was dead. Tories who were pushing in town, Tennis, swim pamphlets sold by means of its sion of the unions or else was a farce and members of tirely composed of articles resentatives, being aware of Sabath however declared that direction. The Stalinists the charter would be lifted. Party were overheard trying to ming, ping pong. Plumbing regular sales at Fordham Rd.
the Alliance and Communist by Trotsky with an es our attitude, will reconsider. that the possibility of his pre said that Roosevelt was not to The body fought unanimously figure out what had happened. 50 per day. 14 a week. and elsewhere, the Upper Westpecially interesting article Adams was a wee bit previ vailing wage resolution being blame either. But we on the Car leaves every Friday at side for its sale of 175 pamagainst this tactic but in the After a few opportunistice about the ten years exist ous. phone call to the Duluth reported favorably by the project who will be laid off in p. from 58 4th St. to phlets in one night in Washing ence of the Bulletin.
Building Trades Camp. Make reservations, ton Heights, and the small Boro Council House Appropriations Commit the coming weeks are not inThe magazine can be obalthough in a different fashion marks about the Ham and brought word the town was still tee did not look bright. Daily terested in finding alibis for Eggs movement, the meeting please! You may also pitch Park branch for sale of 160 than Green would have liked.
tained at the Labor Book tied up tight.
Worker. July 17. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
the summer. Phone: Eaten pamphlets sold in the face of The unions called a reshop. 116 University Place, All a very crooked way of We place the guilt on those who town 515.
cess and met by themselves. but that unity would not be many obstacles. All branches New York City.
John Janasco, Dan Bell, and saying that the New Deal con are responsible and who carry They returned shortly and an broken.
have cooperated in assigning the North Central District gressmen have followed their through the cuts the man in find organizational At Your Service nounced that to avoid the We ll comrades to sell at Times Sq.
Council of Federal Workers leader, President Roosevelt. the White House and the govA. unions losing their char eans of working together, THE APPEAL every Saturday, day and night. Buy the Socialist Appeal Sections have got all of western and are trying to force the ernment he heads Project Worker ter by disobeying Green, the the spokesman of the dePOSTER SHOP Side branches have just instiat Your Newsstand bull eye in flytime. o. unions would withdraw. clared.
their jobs at scab wages. Chicago, MILITANTS QUIT JOBLESS ORGANIZATION CONGRESS LIBERALS BACK DOWN Strikebreaking Final Watch the Anti. Coughlin Reactionary Nature Campaign in New York. 404 400 125 160 50 200